introduction
Once, a small country in West Asia made wild claims that China had been bullied by them for nearly two hundred years, and this country was
Turkey
。 Turkey, once a powerful empire in its history, has since declined and is now an obscure one
Small country in Western Asia
So why would such a small country in West Asia make wild remarks that it had bullied China for 200 years?
Such claims obviously do not stand up to scrutiny, and real history proves them wrong.
Turkish location
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The ancestors of Turkey are actually the Turks as we know them. They were once active in the desert north region, and they were one of the ethnic minorities in the ancient north of our country.
There are historical theories about the origin of the Turks:
The first, Hai Right Li said
The Tang Dynasty historian Li Yanshou wrote in his compilation
History of the North
It is believed that the Turks should be independent tribes living on the right side of the West Sea, and should be the remnants of the right side of the sea.
The second, mobei suoguo said
The third, said the sea god Yin
In the fourth volume of the "Youyang Miscellaneous" written by Tang Duan Chengshi, it is recorded: "Before the Turks, the sun-shooting Mosheli sea god, the god was in the west of Ashde Caves. According to this statement, the place of origin of the Turks should be in the Ashide Caves in Haidong.
Turkic soldiers
Fourth, flat and cool nonsense
In the eighty-four volumes of the Book of Sui, compiled by Sun Wuji and others of the Tang Dynasty, it is recorded: "The first turks, Pingliang Zahuye, surnamed Ashina. Therefore, it can be considered that in the understanding of the eldest son Wujie and so on, the Turkic origin was in the Han Dynasty.
Fifth, Gaochang Beishan said
The last statement comes from
Book of Zhou
In the Book of Zhou, the Turks became a branch of the Xiongnu, and were later destroyed by the neighboring countries, in the war a 10-year-old boy survived, but his feet were cut off by the enemy, and later in the wild this little boy was rescued by a she-wolf, and raised by the she-wolf, the king of the neighboring country heard about this and sent someone to kill the little boy, but the she-wolf was able to escape, according to legend, the she-wolf escaped to a cave north of Gaochang, and gave birth to 10 boys. Later, the boys grew up and formed their own families, and that was it
The original Turkic people
。
Mongol Turkic
02
Of course, there has been a lot of disagreement about the origin of the Turks throughout history, and there is no fixed statement, but later, the powerful Turks did establish their own state.
Turkic Khanate
。 The Turkic Khaganate was once at its peak. In 552 AD,
The Turks defeated Rouran
A slave regime with the Turkic peoples as the main body was established in the Orkhon River Valley centered on the desert north. Its territory was in its heyday
It is bordered by the Liaohai Sea to the east, the Caspian Sea to the west, the North Sea to the north, and the Amu Darya River to the south.
The powerful Turks invaded the Central Plains many times, but were eventually repelled by the Central Plains Dynasty, and eventually settled in
Internal and external troubles
Underneath, the Turks split into
Eastern Turkistan
and
Western Turkistan
The country's comprehensive strength has been greatly reduced.
Turkic to Tang Dynasty
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In our country
Sui and Tang Dynasties
It was the most frequent stage of the Turkic invasion of the Central Plains, during which their activities were the most rampant, repeatedly invading the borders of our country, when the Sui Emperor also sent a lot of troops to fight against these nomads, and also started construction
Great Wall
, hoping to resist the invasion of the Turks. however
The long-term war still seriously injured the Sui Dynasty, and gradually, the Sui Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, and eventually went to extinction.
After the Sui Dynasty, the Li family was established
Tang dynasty
。 As we all know, the Tang Dynasty was a very prosperous period in The history of our country, and the army was full of brave warriors who were good at war. In the face of the Attack of the Turks, the Tang Army has never flinched. In 657, the Tang dynasty army eliminated the Turkic reactionary forces and established them in the border areas
Ansidō Gofu
。 The Turks saw that the Tang army was so brave, and they did not want to live under the oppression of others, so they planned to migrate to other places to survive.
The Turks traveled west to the junction of Eurasia, West Asia, where they settled. After thousands of years of evolution, what is today's Turkey has been formed.
epilogue
So it seems,
The Turks said that they bullied China for more than two hundred years is the original Southern and Northern Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but history proves them wrong.
Although the ancient Turks brought a lot of trouble to the Central Plains Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty finally defeated the Turks by relying on advanced technology and strong national strength, and in the face of the Tang Dynasty's blows, the Turks could not gain a foothold in the desert north, so they had to move to the West Asian region, and ran amok in the local area, and finally established the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
Although China's Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty eventually perished, the reasons were varied, and the invasion of the Turks was not the direct cause. So the Turks' claims are simply nonsense.
Resources:
"Unitary Yang Miscellaneous"